The University of Texas, College of Liberal Arts The Department of Asian Studies

J. Patrick Olivelle :: 1 University Station, G9300 :: Austin, TX 78712 :: 512-471-5811

 

 

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Sections on "The Upaniṣads" and "Dharma" in the third edition of Sources of Indian Tradition. Ed. Rachel McDermott et al. New York: Columbia University Press. Forthcoming.

   
b) "Power of Words: The Ascetic Appropriation and the Semantic Evolution of dharma." In Peter Fluegel and Gustaaf Houtman, eds. Asceticism and Power in South and Southeast Asia. London: Routledge and Royal Asiatic Society. In press.
   
c) "Hindu Law: The Formative Period, 400 BCE-400 CE." In Encyclopedia of Legal History, ed. Stanley N. Katz. New York: Oxford University Press. In press.
   
d) "Manusmriti."  In Encyclopedia of Legal History ed. Stanley N. Katz. New York: Oxford University Press. In press.
   
e) "The Living and the Dead: Ideology and Social Dynamics of Ancestral Commemoration in India." In Festschrift Gananath Obeyesekere, ed. H. L. Senevirante. Florence: University of Florence Press. In press.
   
f) "The Temple in Sanskrit Legal Literature." In Temple in South Asia, ed. H. P. Ray. Delhi: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
   
g) "Dharmaśāstra: A Literary History." In Cambridge Handbook of Law and Hinduism, ed. T. Lubin and D. Davis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.
   
2008a "Celibacy in Classical Hinduism." In Celibacy and Religious Traditions, ed. Carl Olson, pp. 151-164. New York: Oxford University Press.
   
2008b "Orality, Memory, and Power: Vedic Scriptures and Brahmanical Hegemony in India." In Theorizing Scriptures, ed. Vincent L. Wimbush, pp. 214-219. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
   
2007a "Manu and Gautama: A Study in Śāstric Intertextuality." In Exp7878anding and Merging Horizons: Contributions to South Asian and Cross-Cultural Studies in Commemoration Wilhelm Halbfass, ed. K. Preisendanz, pp. 681-692. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.
   
2007b "The term vikrama in the vocabulary of Aśvaghoṣa." In Pramāṇakīrtiḥ: Papers Dedicated to Ernst Steinkellner on the Occassion of his 70th Birthday. Ed. B. Kellner, et al., pp. 587-595. Two Volumes. Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde. Vienna: Arbeitskreis für Tibetsche und Buddhistische Studien.
   
2007c "On the Road: The Religious Signifance of Walking." In Theatrum Mirabiliorum Indiae Orientalis: A Volume to Celebrate the 70th Birthday of Professor Maria Krzysztof Byrski. Rocznik Orientalistyczny 50: 173-187.
   
2007d "The Date and Provenance of the Viṣṇu-Smṛti: On the Intersection between Text and Iconography." Indologica Taurinensia 33: 149-164.
   
2006a "The Ascetic and the Domestic in Brahmanical Religiosity."  In Critics of Asceticism: Historical Accounts and Comparative Perspectives, ed. Oliver Freiberger, pp. 25-42. New York: Oxford University Press.
   
2006b "Explorations in the Early History of Dharmaśāstra." In Patrick Olivelle (ed.), Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BC to 400 CE, pp. 169-190. Oxford University Press, New York.
   
2006c "Heart in the Upaniṣads." Rivist di Studi Sudasiatici (University of Rome) 1: 51-67.
   
2005 "Rebirth and Karma in Cross-Cultural Context." Gananath Obeyesekere Volume. In The Midweek Magazine of THE ISLAND. Wednesday 2, February 2005
   
2004a "Manu and the Arthaśāstra: A Study in Śāstric Intertextuality." Journal of Indian Philosophy 32: 281-91.
   
2004b "Hair" in Encyclopedia of Buddhism, ed. Robert E. Buswell. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference, p. 313.
   
2004c "Rhetoric and Reality: Women's Agency in the Dharmaśāstras." In Encounters with the Word: Essays to Honour Aloysium Pieris, ed. R. Cruz, M. Fernando, and A. Tilakaratne, pp. 489-505. Colombo: Ecumenical Institute for Study and Dialogue.
   
2004d "The Semantic History of Dharma The Middle and Late Vedic Periods." In Dharma: Studies in Its Semantic, Cultural, and Religious History. ed. Patrick Olivelle. Special issue of Journal of Indian Philosophy 32: 491–511
   
2003 "The Renouncer Traditions," in The Companion to Hinduism, ed. Gavin Flood. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 271–87.
   
2002a "Structure and Composition of the Mānava Dharmaśāstra." Journal of Indian Philosophy 30: 535–74.
   
2002b "Abhakṣya and abhojya: An Exploration in Dietary Language," Journal of the American Oriental Society 122: 345–54.
   
2002c "Food for Thought: Dietary Regulations and Social Organization in Ancient India." 2001 Gonda Lecture. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
   
2002d Three essays on Karma, Mokṣa, and Upaniṣads in new edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
   
2002e "On Meat-Eaters and Grass-Eaters: An Exploration of Human Nature in Kathā and Dharma Literature." In Holy War: Violence and the Bhagavad-gītā, ed. Steven J. Rosen, pp. 99–116. Hampton, Virginia: Deepak Publishing.
   
1999a "Sanskrit Commentators and the Transmission of Texts: Haradatta on Āpastamba Dharmasūtra," Journal of Indian Philosophy 27: 551–74.
   
1999b "Young Śvetaketu: A Literary Study of an Upaniṣadic Story," Journal of the American Oriental Society 119: 46–70.
   
1998a "Caste and Purity: A Study in the Language of the Dharma Literature," Contributions to Indian Sociology 32: 190–216.
   
1998b "Unfaithful Transmitters: Philological Criticism and Critical Editions of Upaniṣads," Journal of Indian Philosophy. 26: 173–87.
   
1998c "Hair and Society: Social Significance of Hair in South Asian Traditions." In Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures, ed. Alf Hiltebeitel and Barbara D. Miller, pp. 11–49. New York: State University of New York Press.
   
1997a "Amṛtā: Women and Indian Technologies of Immortality," Journal of Indian Philosophy. 25: 427–49.
   
1997b "Orgasmic Rapture and Divine Ecstasy: The Semantic History of ānanda," Journal of Indian Philosophy 25: 153–80.
   
1996 "Dharmaskandhāḥ and Brahmasaṃsthaḥ: A Study of Chāndogya Upaniṣad 2.23.1," Journal of the American Oriental Society 116: 205–19.
   
1995a "Hindu Asceticism." In HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion, ed. Jonathan Z. Smith. San Francisco: HarperCollins.
   
1995b "Deconstruction of the Body in Indian Asceticism." In Asceticism, ed. Vincent L. Wimbush and Richard Valantasis, pp. 188-210. New York: Oxford University Press.
   
1995c "Ascetic Withdrawal or Social Engagement: The Inner Conflict in Indian Religions." In Sources of Indian Religions, ed. Donald S. Lopez, pp. 533-46. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
   
1995d "Food in India: A Review Essay," Journal of Indian Philosophy 23: 367-80.
   
1991 "From Feast to Fast: Food and the Indian Ascetic." In Rules and Remedies in Classical Indian Law, ed. Julia Leslie, pp. 17-36. Panels of the VIIth World Sanskrit Conference, Vol. 9. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
   
1990 "Village vs. Wilderness: Ascetic Ideals and the Hindu World." In Austin B. Creel and Vasudha Narayanan, ed., Monasticism in the Christian and Hindu Traditions: A Comparative Study. Lewiston: Edwin MelleIn Press, 125-160.
   
1987a "King and Ascetic: State Control of Asceticism in the Arthaśāstra." In Festschrift Ludo Rocher, Adyar Library Bulletin 50: 39-59.
   
1987b "Gananath Obeyesekere and the Study of Religion," Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.), 21: 29-35.
   
1986a "Saṃnyāsa." in The New Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea Eliade, Vol. 13, pp. 51-53. New York: Macmillan & Co.
   
1986b "Rites of Passage: The Hindu Rites." Ibid., Vol. 12, pp. 387-392.
   
1984a "Function of Textual Tradition in Sannyāsin Orders." In Identity and Division of Cults and Sects in South Asia, ed. Peter Gaeffke and David A. Utz, pp. 45-57. Philadelphia: Dept. of South Asia Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
   
1984b "Renouncer and Renunciation in the Dharmaśāstras." In Studies in Dharmaśāstra, ed. Richard Lariviere, pp. 81-152. Calcutta: Firma KLM.
   
1981a "Ānandatīrtha's Saṃnyāsapaddhati: A Handbook for Madhvaite Ascetics," Adyar Library Bulletin (Madras, India) 44-45: 293-303.
   
1981b "Contributions to the Semantic History of Saṃnyāsa," Journal of the American Oriental Society 101: 265-274.
   
1981c "Praṇavamīmāṃsā: A Newly Discovered Work of Vidyāraṇya," Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (Poona, India) 62: 75-101.
   
1980 "Pañcamāśramavidhi: Rite for Becoming a Naked Ascetic," Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 24: 129-145.
   
1978a "Ritual Suicide and the Rite of Renunciation," Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 22: 19-44.
   
1978b "The Integration of Renunciation by Orthodox Hinduism," Journal of the Oriental Institute (Baroda, India) 28: 27-36.
   
1976 "Odes of Renunciation," Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 20: 91-100.
   
1975 "A Definition of World Renunciation," Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 19: 75-83.
   
1974 "The Notion of Āśrama in the Dharmaśāstras," Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens 18: 27-35.